{"id":3246,"date":"2023-02-21T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2023-02-21T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:56:11","slug":"no-regret-or-even-an-iota-of-admission-of-guilt-was-forthcoming-from-bainimarama-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=3246","title":{"rendered":"No regret or even an iota of admission of guilt was forthcoming from Bainimarama \u2013 PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says last week\u2019s parliament session will be remembered for the decision it took to suspend Opposition Leader and former Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama.<\/p>\n<p>In a video message, Rabuka says Bainimarama\u2019s response to the President\u2019s address during the opening of parliament was deemed by the Privileges Committee and endorsed by the members of the Coalition government to be in breach of Parliamentary Privilege.<\/p>\n<p>Rabuka says he wants to assure the nation that they in government, did not take delight in what they had to do.<\/p>\n<div class=\"plyr plyr--audio plyr--stopped plyr--ready\">\n<div class=\"plyr__controls\">The Prime Minister further says for a government that believes in the rule of law, and upholds the proper decorum and respect for the highest court of the land including the President\u2019s Office, they had no choice but to ensure that the law takes its course.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rabuka also says they followed the same rules that Bainimarama together with his government had enforced in previous sessions of parliament that saw the suspension of three members of the opposition including the current Speaker Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE FIJI VILLAGE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says last week\u2019s parliament session will be remembered for the decision it took to suspend Opposition Leader and former Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama. In a video message, Rabuka says Bainimarama\u2019s response to the President\u2019s address during the opening of parliament was deemed by the Privileges Committee and endorsed by the members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiji-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3248,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/3248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}